Members of the program serve on editorial boards of several international scientific journals (Rudolf Podgornik is coeditor in chief of Journal of Biological physics and advisory editor for European biophysical journal, Rudolf Podgornik, Mojca Čepič, Marko Marhl are members of editorial boards of Scientific Reports, European Journal of Physics, The Scientific World Journal and BioSystems, respectively) and national journals (Marko Marhl, Mojca Čepič and Milan Brumen are members of editorial boards of Fizika v šoli, Presek and Proteus, respectively). In addition, we review manuscripts for many prominent international journals; since 2015 we peer-reviewed more than 180 manuscripts. Program members serve as external referees for ERC grants, Marie Curie individual fellowships, Swiss Science Foundation and Initiative of Excellence of the University of Bordeaux.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
Members of the program are actively involved in teaching and hold important administrative positions at three national universities: in Ljubljana, Maribor and Nova Gorica. Nataša Vaupotič is a Vice-Rector at University of Maribor and was the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at University of Maribor, Gvido Bratina is a Vice-Rector at University of Nova Gorica and Marko Marhl is the Dean at the Faculty of Education at University of Maribor. We taught more than 50 undergraduate and graduate courses, and supervised or co-supervised 14 PhD theses and 57 MSc and BSc theses. Members of the program were visiting scholars at leading universities in the USA, UK, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and France, and we hosted several foreign students on various exchange programs.
D.10 Educational activities
Primož Ziherl was a co-director of the summer school "Soft Matter Self-Assembly", International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" (Varenna, Italy,28.6.–7.7.2015), co-organized CECAM Workshop “Structure Formation in Soft Colloids”, Vienna, Austria (19.22.2016), and The 10th national physics conference (Otočec, Slovenia, 16.11.2016). Mojca Čepič served on the advisory boards of "5th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals" (Prague, Czech Republic, 28.6.-3.7.2015) and "The "13th European Conference on Liquid Crystals" (Manchester, UK, 7.-11.9.2015). Marko Marhl was a member of the organizing committee of an international workshop "CITIES AS ORGANISMS; Scaling and Networks in Urban, Social, and Biological Systems" (Maribor, Slovenia, 19.-20. 2.2015). Špela Zemljič Jokhadar served on the committees of the European Cytoskeletal Forum (Postojna, Slovenia, 30.8.-4.9.2015) and "XV Middle European Buiatric Congress" (Maribor, Slovenia, 10.-13.6.2015). In addition, members of the program gave a total of 34 invited talks and more than 90 other contributions at international scientific meetings, and 24 talks at foreign universities.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
Members of the program are actively involved in various fields of popularization of science. Nataša Vaupotič, Aleš Fajmut and Uroš Tkalec co-organized and participated in a number of talks and workshops aimed at students of primary and secondary schools. Saša Vrhovec Hartman participated in events at hands-on science centers "Hiša eksperimentov" and "Zavod 404." Marko Marhl is a member of the scientific committee for the award "Science communicator" at the Slovenian Science Foundation. Mojca Čepič published a book "Liquid crystals through experiments" (San Rafael: Morgan & Claypool Publishers) aimed at facilitating the transfer of new discoveries in physics into schools and to undergraduate programs.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
Members of the program from UM are involved in development of a noninvasive methods for assessment of intolerance on non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (with TalkingCells, Weisbaden, DE), in research of eye lens pathology (with University Medical Centre Ljubljana) and in analysis of left ventricular contractility (with University Medical Centre Maribor). Members from UL participate in a longterm collaboration on research of intermolecular interactions (with Lek Pharmaceuticals, d.d.), on development of speech audiometric tests (with University Medical Centre Ljubljana), and started a collaboration on applications of microfluidics in immunology (with the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology at UL). In 2015 a Polish patent describing a device for measuring the magnetic dipole moment of nanoparticles was granted to Nataša Vaupotič and coworkers. Mojca Pavlin collaborates with Kolektor group on applications of nano-particles in biomedicine, and Uroš Tkalec with Šampionka d.o.o. and The National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food.
F.13 Development of new production methods and tools or processes